Established in 1883 and considered the trade’s leading business in Austria ever since, we have been dealing in rare books, manuscripts and autographs for more than a century, serving private collectors and institutional customers all over the world.

What’s new: recent acquisitions

  • Gaubil, Antoine, Jesuit missionary, astronomer, and historian at the Imperial Court in Beijing (1689-1759). "Catalogue Chinois des Étoiles". Autograph manuscript.Beijing, 1734.

    $135,610.00
  • [Qur'an]. Esberg, Johan [praes.] / Fahlen, Erik [resp.]. [Adghath ahlam al-Qur'an] sive historiola Alcorani et fraudum Muhammedis.Uppsala, 1699.

    $1,953.00
  • Britten, Benjamin, English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913-1976). Autograph signature, co-signed by Sir Peter Pears (1910-1986).N. p. o. d.

    $282.00
  • Flavius, Josephus. Opera.Basel, 1544.

    $16,273.00

What’s available: our stock, updated daily

What’s gone: some recent sales

  • Wodehouse, P[elham] G[renville], English writer (1881-1975). Autograph letter signed.Le Touquet, 12 Feb 1936.

    $1,627.00
  • Liszt, Franz, Komponist und Pianist (1811-1886). Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("F. Liszt").Weimar, 25 Sep 1885.

    $3,797.00
  • [Astrological Volvelle]. [Dell' hore planetarie].Italy Genoa?, ca. 1650?.

    $13,561.00
  • Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita.Paris, August 1955.

    $4,882.00